Travel and Lifestyle

“Building” a Blog Post

“Building” a blog post in 7 steps. Obviously there are a few different ways of doing it and even I have done it differently in the past.

Back in the blogspot days I was quite a lazy blogger and would sometimes just write a couple of lines not even bothering with pictures.

This is how I go about it now:

Step 1: What am I writing about? Possibly one of the trickiest steps. Often I already have an idea or I get the urge to write about something in particular. Saying this, I do write twice a week so sometimes the subject does not come naturally and I have to dig deeper in my brain to come up with something.

Step 2: Come up with a somewhat catchy title. Not usually a struggle as I am not to fussed about these so I don’t stress if I don’t get a genius post title idea.

Step 3: Finding a “feature” picture for the post header. I try to make it relevant to the subject but that is not always possible. The fact that I take pictures all the time does help as I have plenty to choose from.

Step 4: Setting up the SEO information with the help of the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. This is supposed to help with the discoverability of the post on search engines. I just need to pick a couple of lines that represent the post and the focus key word(s).

Step 5: I copy my referral and affiliate links in every post. Please feel free to click on those from time to time! 😉

Step 6: Upload any pictures that I am sharing on the blog post and/or find any links for stuff I am sharing with you.

Step 7: Schedule the post for Wednesday or Sunday at 6pm. On the day it comes out I usually share the post on the Facebook page, on Twitter and sometimes on Instagram stories.

If you have any questions or comments please let me know in the comments’ section below. It is always nice to hear from you.